Associate Project Manager

Project Planning and Execution:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, scope, and deliverables.

• Contribute in driving quarterly OKR goals, various ad-hoc requirements. This is done by detail project plans, managing task sequence, closely tracking progress, identifying risks or issues, and implementing mitigation strategies.

• Coordinate with technology, systems administration, network, and support teams to ensure smooth project execution.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Foster collaboration among different teams, including traders, quant analysts, accounts, operations, technology, systems-network administration, business development and support teams.

• Engage with traders, analysts, developers, and operations staff to align expectations and provide updates.

Agile Scrum Master and Jira administration:

• Act as an Agile scrum master, guiding the team in adopting and implementing Agile methodologies.

• Promote collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement within the team.

• Serve as the Jira administrator for the team, managing Jira boards, Train members on Jira usage and best practices.

• Stay updated on industry trends, and best practices related to technology and trading.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science, finance, or a related field.

• Minimum 5 years of total experience in IT industry

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a project manager within the financial industry preferably proprietary trading.

• Strong understanding of financial markets, software development practices and technology infrastructure.

• Demonstrated experience coordinating with technology, systems administration, network, and support teams.

• Proven track record of successfully managing complex projects and delivering results within time and scope constraints.

• Must to have agile practitioner experience. Good to have Agile coach experience and relevant Agile certification (eg, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner)

• Hands on experience in Jira administration, including board customization, workflow management, and reporting, Confluence and other DevOps tools.

• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

• Analytical mindset with problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic trading environment.

• Great People. we're curious engineers, mathematicians, statisticians and like to have fun while achieving our goals
• Transparent Structure. Our employees know that we value their ideas and contributions
• Relaxed Environment. We have a flat organizational structure with frequent activities for all employees such as yearly offsites, happy hours, corporate sports teams, etc
• Health & we'llness Programs. We believe that a balanced employee is more productive. A stocked kitchen, gym membership and generous vacation package are just some of the perks that we offer our employees